Exploring Matter under Extreme Conditions with Numerical Simulations

Peter Petreczky, Brookhaven National Laboratory

This poster presentation summarizes recent progress in exploring
the phase diagram, as well as properties of strongly interacting matter at extreme
conditions, using lattice QCD. Current status and prospectives of calculating
quantities crucial for RHIC program (quarkonia spectral functions, critical
energy density, equation of state) are discussed in detail.
The role of the SciDAC program in reaching the outlined goals is emphasized.